Free Verse:Pratt's Integer LawWhen your feeling down and feeling blue Pratt's Integer Law will show you what to doNow I'll explain

It's very simple you see

When the amount of negatives is oddNegative the answer will beWhen the amount of negatives is evenTake a breath and the answer I will giveDon't get into a panicThe answer will always be positiveNow don't think that's the endBecause there's one more thing I have to sayWhen the equation has a zero don't go cryingThe answer will then be zippo, natta, nothingNow your glumness is blown away!Free Verse:SubtractingSubtracting Kind of gives you a stingSubtractingIsn't what you predictSubtractingReally is adding the opposite

Free Verse:Quotative DivisionQuotative Division is a breezeI will use the numbers six and threeTo explain what you will soon readTwo goes into six How many groups of two does that leave you withIf you guessed purple monkey you got it wrong you seeThe amount of groups is actually three

Picture:Partitive Division

Chapter Two

Jimmy: Hey Sue, how are you today?Sue: I am great!Sue: I have a question for you Jimmy: ShootSue: Okay well its two questions from my math homework. I think I know the answers but I'm not to sure if they are right.The first question is n+3-5n+12 the answer I got for it was -6n+15. Is that correct?Jimmy: Actually Sue that is the wrong answer. I'll show you how to get the right one. Well first you have to group the alike terms. So it would look like this n-5n+3+12. Then what you want to do is figure it out so the simplification would be -4n+15.Sue: Oh I see how you got that!Sue: Now for the next question. 2 + 4(3n+8). I think the answer is 12n + 10. Now that must be right.Jimmy: No I'm sorry Sue that isn't right. I'll explain it again. This is called distributive property. First you have to multiply 3n by 4 and then 8 by 4. That gives you 2+12n+32. Next you have to group the alike terms. So it would look like this 12n+32+2. Finally figure what every thing equals put together and the simplification would be 12n+34.Sue: Thank you so much for helping me!Jimmy: Your welcome.

Hi Charissa, I really like your poems, I could see you worked really hard on them, and like what Francis and Gian said about your free verse poem on the law, it was really good. Also, another thing that Gian has already pointed out, was the use of your colours. Well anyways, good job, keep up the good work !

Hey Charissa, awesome job on the poems. I really enjoyed the free verse on "Pratt's Law" or I guess your law. Well anyways I liked the vocabulary you used in that poem. I also really liked the picture poem. I found that pretty cool the way you made it shape in to a division sign. I wasn't sure what it was at first then I saw it after 5 minutes. Well, good job.